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Data security breaches

• Security pros explain how to prevent cyber attacks

  Even during pandemics, hackers use malware such as ransomware and phishing to exploit an organization's vulnerabilities. IT security pros discuss how they prevent cyber attacks.  Continue Reading

• 6 data breach prevention strategies to defend against attack

  Experts offer six tips about how to improve cybersecurity protection and response plans to mitigate the fallout of data breaches and attacks on sensitive information.  Continue Reading

• Data security guide: Everything you need to know

  This data security guide digs into data protection and privacy compliance, explaining how to construct a proactive security strategy strengthened by best practices.  Continue Reading

• Cyberinsurance coverage reflects a changing threat landscape

  A constant deluge of data breach disclosures has prompted an increase in cybersecurity insurance coverage adoption. Learn how a policy can enhance an enterprise risk management program.  Continue Reading

• Beat common types of cyberfraud with security awareness

  Hackers are taking deception to a new level, but security awareness programs are instrumental in helping employees detect various types of cyberfraud.  Continue Reading

• Threat intelligence offers promise, but limitations remain

  Do you know how to use threat intelligence feeds to best effect in your company? Learn what this valuable yet often confusing resource can and can't do for cybersecurity.  Continue Reading

• Data breach risk factors, response model, reporting and more

  Dig into five data breach risk factors, and learn how the DRAMA data breach response model can help enterprises counter breaches in a timely and efficient manner.  Continue Reading

• The ins and outs of cyber insurance coverage

  Cyber insurance coverage can help companies successfully navigate the aftereffects of a data breach. However, choosing a policy in the first place can be confusing.  Continue Reading

• Assessing the value of personal data for class action lawsuits

  Determining the value of consumers' personal data exposed in a breach can be a challenge. Security and legal experts discuss what factors are involved in the equation.  Continue Reading

• Combat the human aspect of risk with insider threat management

  When it comes to insider threat awareness and prevention, enterprises would be wise to marry a people-centric approach with a technology-centric approach.  Continue Reading

• How information sharing can reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities

  Cybersecurity vulnerabilities come from multiple fronts for modern businesses, but information sharing about real-world breaches -- good and bad -- provides valuable intelligence.  Continue Reading

• Cybercrime and Business: Strategies for Global Corporate Security

  In this excerpt from chapter three of Cybercrime and Business, author Sanford L. Moskowitz discusses the effects cybercrime can have on small- and medium-sized businesses.  Continue Reading

• Advanced endpoint protection takes on the latest exploits

  Advanced endpoint protection is arriving from all quarters -- machine learning, crafty sandboxes, behavior analytics. Learn how tech advances are being applied to endpoints.  Continue Reading

• Learn what breach detection system is best for your network

  Breach detection systems are essential in these days of machine learning and artificial intellingence. Learn how to identify the features and functions your network needs.  Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity blind spots: Mitigating risks and vulnerabilities

  Cybersecurity blind spots based in risk and vulnerabilities can be difficult to spot and address. Sean Martin talks with security experts on how to overcome that challenge.  Continue Reading

• CISO challenges: Addressing cybersecurity blind spots

  Every enterprise has cybersecurity blind spots that it fails to recognize and address. Sean Martin explains what they are and how they create more CISO challenges.  Continue Reading

• Comparing the best data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes examines the strengths and weaknesses of top-rated data loss prevention (DLP) products to help enterprises make the right purchasing decision.  Continue Reading

• Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigator's Handbook

  In this excerpt of Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigator's Handbook, authors Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth and Francesca Bosco outline the classification, types and categories of cybercrime.  Continue Reading

• Five supporting technologies for DLP products

  Expert Bill Hayes examines five technologies that can complement data loss prevention products and improve enterprise security.  Continue Reading

• How to deploy the right DLP products for the right jobs

  Expert Bill Hayes maps specific data loss prevention products to three deployment scenarios to better help readers make their own purchase decisions.  Continue Reading

• Warnings, neglect and a massive OPM data breach

  Why no one should have been surprised by the massive government Office of Personnel Management data hack.  Continue Reading

• Tips for creating a data classification policy

  Before deploying and implementing a data loss prevention product, enterprises should have an effective data classification policy in place. Expert Bill Hayes explains how that can be done.  Continue Reading

• How to keep track of sensitive data with a data flow map

  Expert Bill Hayes describes how to create a data flow map to visualize where sensitive data is processed, how it transits the network and where it's stored.  Continue Reading

• Six criteria for buying data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes lays out six steps to take in order to buy the right data loss protection (DLP) products for your organization.  Continue Reading

• Three usage scenarios for deploying data loss prevention products

  Expert Bill Hayes details usage scenarios for deploying data loss prevention: standalone suites, integrated tools and standalone/integrated DLP combined.  Continue Reading

• The business case for data loss prevention products

  Data loss prevention (DLP) can help any organization where the loss of sensitive information could seriously impact continued operation, explains Bill Hayes.  Continue Reading

• Software [In]security: BSIMM-V does a number on secure software dev

  The fifth iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model project is a tool you can use as a measuring stick for software security initiatives.  Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity: Global risk management moves beyond regulations

  Global risk management based on the lowest common denominator may not ‘comply' with IP or trade secrets. Analysts see big changes ahead.  Continue Reading

• BSIMM4 measures and advances secure application development

  The fourth iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model project is a tool you can use as a measuring stick for software security initiatives.  Continue Reading

• Data breach protection requires new barriers

  Assumption of breach is the new norm. Can this shift help organizations build better levels of data breach protection?  Continue Reading

• Balancing the cost and benefits of countermeasures

  The final tip in our series, "How to assess and mitigate information security threats," excerpted from Chapter 3: The Life Cycle of Internet Access Protection Systems of the book "The Shortcut Guide to Protecting Business Internet Usage published by...  Continue Reading

• Information theft and cryptographic attacks

  The third tip in our series, "How to assess and mitigate information security threats," excerpted from Chapter 3: The Life Cycle of Internet Access Protection Systems of the book The Shortcut Guide to Protecting Business Internet Usage published by ...  Continue Reading

• Policies and regulatory compliance

  An overview of the type of policies needed for regulatory compliance.  Continue Reading

• Elements of a data protection strategy

  In this excerpt from Data Protection and Lifecycle Management, Tom Petrocelli addresses the importance of securing data for regulatory compliance and outlines the five components of a data protection strategy.  Continue Reading

• Frank Abagnale preaches the dangers of hacking

  A penitent Frank Abagnale Jr. shuns white-collar crime and fraud, and helps others understand how to guard against the dangers of hacking.  Continue Reading

• Centralized antivirus management: Get a bird's-eye view of AV defenses

  Centralized antivirus management technologies provide enterprises a bird's-eye view of AV defenses and establish applications that protect against unwanted malware and viruses.  Continue Reading